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Activities For 'Food Allergy Awareness Week'
The Food Allergy Education Network, based in Branford, has put together a week of activities for Food Allergy Awareness Week (5/12-18). "Friend Day", "Restaurant Day" and "School Day" are all about raising awareness and promoting education about making...
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Bacteria and the Binky
A new study shows that kids whose parents lick pacifiers to clean them are 88 percent less likely to have asthma. Perhaps my saliva just wasn’t good enough. Despite doing everything right -- using my own saliva to clean my kids’...
Tags: Physical Conditions, Asthma
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A Better Epi-Pen?
Those of us who carry epinephrine in our pocketbooks and hide them in our kids’ backpacks will appreciate this new product: It actually walks you through the injection process. Since I failed miserably the one time I needed to use our Epi-Pen 10...
Tags: Epinephrine
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Food Allergies and Bullying
I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t worry about my food-allergic sons 100 percent of the time they’re away from me. Back when they were preschoolers, I worried that someone would offer them a cookie with walnuts and they wouldn’... -
What Are GMO's, And What Health Risks Do They Pose?
They’re in 80% of the food we eat: genetically modified organisms. Some say they pose serious health risks. Some believe those risks to be so serious, they’re willing to break the law in order to notify their fellow consumers that products...Tags: Litigation, Bones and Joints, Dannel P. Malloy , Autism, Laws
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The Candy Trading Floor
If you’re fortunate enough to live in a town that’s actually allowing residents to trick-or-treat tonight, your kids will likely take part in some sort of candy trading. Two of my dudes can’t eat half of what they get since they’... -
When Does A Bug Bite Need Medical Attention?
This is an important topic. Sure, all our kids get bug bites....but, finding a tick embedded in his skin can be a pretty big deal. When is a bug bite just a bug bite? And when should we parents seek medical attention? Read over this press release from...
Tags: Lyme, Tetanus, Back Pain, Health, West Hartford
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A Beautiful Plan
CTW Features“You look beautiful!” Certainly, that’s one of the most common utterances of wedding guests. So common, in fact, it seems as if beauty comes naturally to every bride. Love’s glow may be a force of nature, but experts stress...Tags: Dermatology, Sun-Damaged Skin, Personal Service, Rosacea, Health
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Heart-Healthy Rides
Just as a prudent owner cares for their car via regular maintenance, tomorrow’s vehicles will be able to care for their drivers by helping them keep track of their medical conditions. Engineers at Ford are developing a car seat that incorporates a...Tags: Mercedes-Benz, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Heart and Circulatory System, Germany, Lexus
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Ford Wants to Monitor Your Health
Ford's Sync has proven to be a capable device for hands-free calling, audio controls and other simple functions. But if Ford gets its way, the multimedia system could help monitor drivers for potentially life-saving medical conditions.
Ford is working...Tags: Physical Conditions, Diseases and Illnesses, Asthma, Diabetes, Health
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I Have Allergies... Are Silk Flowers Okay?
Special to CTGetsMarried.comYikes! As an avid gardener, this is going to be hard for me to write, but yes, silk flowers or even dried flowers are perfectly acceptable. If you have allergies to flowers, why spoil your make-up when faux flowers can be just as beautiful and...Tags: Physical Conditions, Health
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